When I was a kid one of my favorite games was Flightmare, a game of
airborne combat released in 1984. It was a game full of mysteries,
some of which were due to the primitive gameplay--your plane's motion
in three dimensions was shown by simultaneously running top-down and
side views, each of which had eight separate directional
controls. Some of the mysteries I still don't understand, like why it
asked you whether you had an RGB or a composite monitor.

But what really got me was the writing, which was full of obscure .
Even in the interminable
introduction you were provided with gems like "The controls are many,
and the survivors few."

ALPHA WAVE: FIRST ASSAULT

BETA WAVE: SKY BATTLES

GAMMA WAVE: TRUCKS APPEAR

DELTA WAVE: HUMPHREY LIVES

WAVE: EPSILON ANGUISH

ZETA WAVE: POP CORN

ETA WAVE: BORN LOSERS

THETA WAVE: AVENGERS

IOTA WAVE: NOT MUCH

WAVE: KAPPA WILD ONES

LAMBDA WAVE: LEG OF

MU WAVE: COW

NU WAVE: PUNKS

XI WAVE: TURKS

WAVE: OMICRON NEAR

PI WAVE: ARE SQUARE

RHO WAVE: YOUR BOAT

SIGMA WAVE: SICK PA

TAU WAVE: HIS AND HERS

WAVE: UPSILON BYE BYE

PHI WAVE: BLOODY BATTLE

CHI WAVE: VICIOUS ATTACK

PSI WAVE: THE SPY

OMEGA WAVE: FINAL BATTLE

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